Featured in Mirae Asset Securities' research report on February 23, 2026 as a leading example of agent fundraising, with coverage from one of Korea's largest traditional brokerage and investment institutions.

Achieved $8.4B TVL in EigenLayer/EigenCloud restaking infrastructure.

a16z purchased $70M of EIGEN tokens to back EigenCloud.

EigenLayer/EigenCloud integrated with Coinbase AgentKit, Google's A2A protocol, and Polymarket.

Dropped to $1,840 in price on February 28, 2026.

BlackRock's spot Ethereum ETF experienced outflows totaling $75.71M (combined with Bitcoin ETF outflows).

Experienced net outflow of $43 million from US Ethereum ETFs on February 27, 2026, with BlackRock's ETHA accounting for the entire outflow.

A whale bridged 9,180 ETH ($18.6M) through NEAR Intents over four days and swapped it all for PAXG.

Machi opened a new 25x leveraged long position on 925 ETH worth $1.78M with a liquidation price of $1,866.02 after being fully liquidated.

Grayscale's ETHE recorded zero net flow on February 27, 2026.

Paul Brody stepped away from his role as Global Blockchain Leader at EY after a decade of contributions to Ethereum.

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking its ETH holdings.

Reached $1,931 on February 27, 2026.

Moved nearly 19% in a 29-hour window from February 24th to February 25th, 2026.

South Korea's National Tax Service accidentally exposed a crypto wallet seed phrase in an official press release, leading to the theft of 4 million PRTG tokens (worth approximately $4.8M) from an Ethereum address through three transfers before the entire balance was drained in a single transaction.

Jovian Hardfork scheduled to launch on the Celo network.

Shared engineering accomplishments and features at Scaling Summit alongside Optimism representatives.

Builder experience as an Ethereum L2 was discussed in a hosted interview.

Vitalik sold over $30 million worth of ETH in February 2026, with proceeds supporting the Ethereum Foundation and his biotech nonprofit Kanro.

Supported as a destination chain in Circle's crosschain forwarding service for Bridge Kit and Circle Gateway, which automates destination-chain execution for crosschain transfers.

Price path to $10,000 hinges on seven upgrades and a fragile ecosystem vote.

Has 42,000 daily active traders onchain.

FOCIL update aims to boost on-chain censorship resistance

Reached a 24-hour peak revenue of $39,500 per hour.

Targets 8 MB per second of blob data capacity via PeerDAS, plans ZK-EVM adoption and multi-proof validation.

Maps scaling path including multidimensional gas, ePBS, ZK-EVM multi-proof validation, and 8 MB/sec blobs in Glamsterdam roadmap. Plans Glamsterdam upgrade including block-level access lists.

Glamsterdam upgrade introduces multidimensional gas with a separate "state creation gas" dimension that will not count toward the ~16 million transaction gas cap, with SSTORE zero-to-nonzero operations charging 5,000 regular gas plus approximately 55,000 state creation gas.

Block-level access lists feature is scheduled to launch in the Glamsterdam upgrade, enabling blocks to be verified in parallel.

ZK-EVM clients that allow participation as an attester are planned to exist in 2026, with an initial target of approximately 5% of the network relying on them.

ETF holdings declined from 5.49% to 4.48% of circulating supply.

Recorded net inflows of 24,359 ETH ($47.67M) into Ethereum ETFs on February 27, 2026, and 38,971 ETH ($76.27M) over the prior 7-day period.

ETH ETFs recorded net outflows of $1 million.

RAILGUN crossed $4.5B in total shielded volume in 2025.

RAILGUN is deployed on Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Polygon as an onchain privacy suite using zero-knowledge cryptography to shield ERC-20s and NFTs.

Perpetual funding rates flipped positive for the first time in weeks as of February 27, 2026.

DX Research Group launches live agent trading with 1500 Agents controlling 12,500+ ETH ($25M)

Reached $750M+ total inflows across Ethereum, Plasma, and Base deployments through Aave integration with syrupUSDC and syrupUSDT.

Options contracts worth $8.7 billion in ETH expire on 2026-02-27.

Reclaimed $2,000 price level, trading near $2,050 on February 27, 2026, after reaching $2,036.

MetaAlpha deposited 6,994 ETH (approximately $14.3M) into Binance within a 24-hour period ending on 2026-02-27.

Lido V3 introduces stVaults, enabling customizable ETH staking at the validator level with dedicated delegation channels and non-custodial delegation to specific validators.

Recorded daily inflow of $15.3 million into BlackRock's Ethereum ETF on February 27, 2026.

Vitalik mapped post-quantum roadmap on February 27th, 2026, using STARKs and recursive proof aggregation, includes native Account Abstraction (EIP-8141) by 2026, targeting quantum-safe security by 2029. Outlines 7 forks through 2029, aiming for 10,000+ TPS (gigagas L1 via zkEVM), sub-second finality, native privacy with shielded ETH, and mandatory 3-of-5 proving, with teragas L2 targeting 10 million TPS via data availability sampling.

Magic Eden stopped its EVM NFT marketplace in March 2026.

Hey Anon launched "Pandora" prediction market on Ethereum.

Recorded net inflow of $6.5742M across Spot ETH ETFs on February 26, 2026, with BlackRock's ETHA contributing $15.3M inflow and Fidelity's FETH experiencing $19.2M outflow.

Whale sold 23,500 ETH for $47.6M through FalconX at an average price of $2,025 on February 27, 2026, realizing a $15.09M loss to repay Aave loans. Previously accumulated 163,405 ETH between January 8 and February 2, 2026, at an average price of $2,691.

A whale/institution accumulated 83,392 ETH and 4,000 cbBTC worth $500 million total in early February 2026, with an average ETH cost basis of $2,667 per token.

A whale/institution holds 150,000 ETH valued at $302 million with an unrealized loss of $126 million as of February 27, 2026.

BlackRock has tokenized Treasury bills through its BUIDL fund on Ethereum and other public blockchains.

Grayscale's ETHE ETF recorded $6.6 million in daily inflows on February 26, 2026.

MoonPay serves as presenting sponsor of ETH MILAN, the largest crypto conference in Italy.

Bitmine, a leader in Ethereum staking market, invested in Beast Industries, which acquired Step fintech and plans to leverage Ethereum as backbone infrastructure for stablecoins and DeFi services for its 1.45 billion users.

Reid Hoffman holds $6.1M in ETH in his known address and acquired a Cryptopunk for 150 ETH in late 2025.

Reth 1.11 releases storage v2 behind a feature flag, reducing node storage requirements and improving performance for Ethereum mainnet nodes.

Circle issued $90 million USDC on Ethereum on February 26, 2026, with a rolling 30-day net redemption of $452 million.

USDC net outflows totaled -$452 million over the rolling 30-day period ending February 26, 2026.

EIP-8164 proposes extending the 7702 delegation designator to 0xef0101, allowing EOAs to permanently migrate from ECDSA to Ed25519 at the protocol level with one transaction.

Price reached $2,069.05 with a 5.17% increase.

Vitalik Buterin sold $8.5M worth of ETH over a three-day period ending on 2026-02-26.

Ethereum Foundation launched a DeFi coordination team to support DeFi builders.

ERC-8004 went live on Mantle mainnet on 2026-02-05, powering agentic services, verifiable identity, and portable reputation for AI agents with on-chain registries for agent identity, reputation, and validation.

ETFs recorded a 7-day net outflow of 42,931 ETH ($87.58M) as of February 26, 2026.

Bitpanda is building Vision Chain, a Layer 2 on Ethereum designed for European on-chain finance with features including yield and gas fees denominated in EURO and compliance with MiCA, PSD2, and AML regulations.

A whale opened a $52,260,000 short position on ETH with 15x leverage on 2026-02-26, with liquidation price at $2,977.

ETH price surged 12% to $2,075 on February 26, 2026, from $2,070.

206,000 ETH options expire on February 27, 2026, with a notional value of $980 million, Put-Call Ratio of 0.77, and maximum pain point at $2,200. This marks the largest options expiry of the month, alongside $7.7 billion in BTC options.

A whale at address 0x69A accumulated 8,033 ETH (~$16.47M) from Galaxy Digital on 2026-02-26 at approximately 08:23 UTC, bringing their total holdings to 37,576 ETH (~$77.53M).

Integrated with Oobit's wallet-to-bank transfer feature through DTR routing infrastructure, enabling users to send ETH for direct settlement into bank accounts using local payment systems including SEPA, ACH, and SPEI.

CryptoPunk with Police Cap attribute sold for 30 ETH.

Integrated into Telegram Wallet's yield offering through TON Wallet, supports BTC, USDT, and ETH, partnered with Morpho and Re7.

Whale 0x2bd7 acquired 25,436 ETH by swapping 240 BTC worth $16.28M and purchasing 17,284 ETH at an average price of $2,083 using 36M USDT borrowed from Aave, with a liquidation price of $1,705.65 on February 25, 2026.

Layer 2 usage reached all-time highs, while network fees collapsed to multi-year lows, 10,000x cheaper than summer 2021.

Recorded -28% price decline in Q4 2025.

Perpetuals and options trading volume declined by more than 20%.

BlackRock's Ethereum ETF recorded $31.3M inflow on February 26, 2026. BlackRock and Fidelity purchased over $90M worth of ETH.

Ethereum ETFs recorded 51,705 ETH ($105.48M) net inflow on February 26, 2026, highest since January 15, 2026.

Fidelity Ethereum ETF recorded a daily inflow of $61.9 million on February 26, 2026.

Whale 0xAb59 spent $14.57M to buy 7,008 ETH at $2,079 on 2026-02-25.

Recorded net inflow of $157.2 million across ETFs on February 25, 2026, highest since February 2, 2026, after five weeks of $3.8B outflows. Fidelity's FETH received $61.9 million, Grayscale Staking ETHE $33.9 million, BlackRock's ETHA $31.3 million, Grayscale Staking Mini ETH $25.6 million, VanEck's ETHV $3.0 million, and Bitwise's ETHW $1.5 million.

MyEtherWallet integrated support for Ondo Global Markets tokenized stocks and ETFs on Ethereum.

Stablecoin issuers generated approximately $5 billion in revenue from their Ethereum deployments in 2025.

Scheduled Glamsterdam fork for 2026, identifying ePBS and BALs as consensus and execution headliners.

An old wallet holds 10,000 ETH.

Vitalik Buterin sold $700,000 worth of ETH in a one-hour period ending around 2026-02-25 19:45 UTC.

Integrated with Travala and CarTrawler to enable global car rental bookings in 150+ countries, with ETH accepted as one of several payment options alongside BTC, USDT, USDC, SOL, and fiat.

Jane Street has a liquidation price of $140,000 on their ETH position.

Meta plans to integrate stablecoins on Ethereum in the second half of 2026.

Achieved top chain position by stablecoin volume on the WalletConnect Network with $6.29 billion in weekly stablecoin volume.

ETH price increased by 10% and is trading above a significant level as stablecoin activity returns to the market.

Scheduled discussion about Ethereum with @feindura on February 25, 2026 at 5pm EST.

AI security firm uncovered a high-severity bug in client code that could have stalled block production.

Featured in a live discussion about the LUCID EIP encrypted mempool proposal being considered for the Hegotá upgrade, hosted by christine_dkim with EIP champion robocopsgonemad and AnotherJannik.

Vitalik Buterin outlined L1 Strawmap roadmap on February 26, 2026, through 2029, planning seven forks every six months, targeting 1 gigagas/sec throughput, 10K TPS scaling via zkEVMs, teragas L2 capacity for 10 million TPS, native privacy-preserving ETH transfers, post-quantum security, faster finality, reducing block times to 2 seconds and finality to under 16 seconds, including hash-based post-quantum cryptography and shielded ETH transfers, with quantum resistance for consensus-layer BLS signatures, data availability (KZG commitments+proofs), EOA signatures (ECDSA), and application-layer ZK proofs (KZG or groth16) via incremental upgrades to signatures, data availability, and ZK proofs using quantum-safe hash-based and STARK-based systems, replacing vulnerable cryptography with hash-based signatures, STARK proofs, and new account infrastructure to become quantum-resistant.

Reached a maximum recorded throughput of 39,200 transactions per second in December 2025.

Ranked third in weekly mindshare growth by projects with a +0.95% increase.

Ranked second in weekly mindshare growth by chains with a +0.7% increase.

Reclaimed $2,000 price level on February 25, 2026.

Dropped 36.30% year-to-date as of February 25, 2026, underperforming Bitcoin's 26.39% decline.

ETFs experienced net outflows of 2,311 ETH ($4.55M) on February 25, 2026, and 108,385 ETH ($213.52M) over the preceding 7-day period.